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Article: 2001 Wilmington Report.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Business North Carolina
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- September 1, 2001
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Wilmington's historic waterfront attracts tourists, filmmakers and new businesses to this bustling port city.
Twenty-five years ago, Dave Phillips helped New York-based Citibank turn the ATM into a worldwide acronym. A few years later, he began marketing Citibank's credit cards on a national scale and became respected in the industry as the father of the modern-day card. Five years ago, he took his own company, Chicago-based CCC Information Services Inc., public. Today, he and his wife, Ruthann, live on the Intracoastal Waterway in Wilmington and he teaches business-marketing courses at UNC Wilmington.
In the early '90s, when the Phillipses started ...